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Robyn2006
11-26-2005, 08:45 PM
Just spent this entire Saturday morning getting all dolled-up, listening to Saturday Edition, Car Talk, and Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me on NPR, my nearly ever-present background noise. I really took my time and have managed to transform myself as perfectly as I am able.... and thinking I look pretty fantastic, if you'll allow me to add!

Anyway, I'm thinking that we all must surely have some "best" advice, discoveries if you will, that have greatly added to our ability to jump the preverbal gender fence. Here are a few of mine, hoping some of you will add yours too...

Tip #1
Use Nair 4 Minute Lotion to remove all hair below the neck. Seems everyone is always talking about the problems of shaving their body, but Nair works amazingly well, always leaving my body completely soft and smooth. (Some have said that they have had a problem with skin irritation using Nair, but I have never had a problem...)

Tip #2
Keep your nail polish in the refrigerator, it goes on so much easier when cold!

Tip #3
After shaving, always use a pore-reducing mask. As guys, we have much larger pores than our role models and, as such, we really need to take a few minutes to try to rectify this. I use Avon's TruePore-Fection mask and love it! It's amazing how much it reduces my pores and allows my foundation flow-out so smoothly on my face. It also help so much in removing my beard's shadow!

Tip #4
If you're attaching breast forms using an adhesive such as Hollister's, use both Smith+Nephew's Uni-Solve Remover AND (the tip here) a degreaser such as Goo Gone or DeSolve-It. Before I discovered these degreasers, it took me forever to get the adhesive off!

Tip #5
Use an eyelash brush to get out those bonded lashes! Before I discovered this, I could never get my mascara to not bleed together my eyelashes. With an eyelash brush you can easily brush-out your lashes, leaving them supermodel perfect!

Tip # 6
Use a liquid eyeliner on both your inner and outer. lower eye lids. I had always just did my outer lid, not realizing how much drama could be added to my eyes with the inner line drawn too. Such an amazing addition to my look!

Ok, thinking that these tips might be a bit lame for those in-the-know, but hoping too that they might help some and that these might inspire everyone to add their own tips!

Robyn
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Billijo49504
11-26-2005, 10:28 PM
Thanks for the tips. I always want to learn something new every day, and you just solved today. I didn't know about the nail polish thing. See I just learned something. If I could only learn to get rid of this headache! Hope you had a great holiday..BJ

Tamara Croft
11-26-2005, 11:18 PM
Tip #5
Use an eyelash brush to get out those bonded lashes! Before I discovered this, I could never get my mascara to not bleed together my eyelashes. With an eyelash brush you can easily brush-out your lashes, leaving them supermodel perfect!I'll give you a tip why they bleed together..... too much mascara on the brush. When you take the brush out the bottle, scrape off the excess and put more coats on the lashes instead of trying to do it all in one go. Also, if you put the mascara on the top of the top lashes first and then let it dry a few seconds and then put a coat on underneath the lashes, they will curl upwards more than normal :D

Some excellent tips there ;)

DanaJ
11-26-2005, 11:35 PM
Good tips Robyn! Thanks for posting them.....


Tip # 6
Use a liquid eyeliner on both your inner and outer. lower eye lids. I had always just did my outer lid, not realizing how much drama could be added to my eyes with the inner line drawn too. Such an amazing addition to my look!I thought that you should only use a pencil to line your inner eyelids, a liquid would just run into your eyes and never dry.....

Tamara Croft
11-26-2005, 11:40 PM
Did you know, using eyeliner on both lids make your eyes look smaller than they really are? There is a technique we were taught at college regarding eyeliner. If you put liner on the full length of your top lid, you should put none or light liner on the bottom. If you put it half way on the top lid, you should put it half way on the bottom.

Robyn2006
11-26-2005, 11:41 PM
...if you put the mascara on the top of the top lashes first and then let it dry a few seconds and then put a coat on underneath the lashes, they will curl upwards more than normal

Very cool tip, Tamara. I'll try that tomorrow! So love that there are GG here to help!!!

Robyn

Robyn2006
11-26-2005, 11:46 PM
I thought that you should only use a pencil to line your inner eyelids, a liquid would just run into your eyes and never dry.....

That's what I always thought too, Dana. But... Nope! To get the dramatic effects on the eyes that so many models have, it's the inner stroke with a liquid eyeliner that does it. And it dries perfectly!

Robyn

Tamara Croft
11-26-2005, 11:48 PM
Do you mean just under the lower lashes, or actually on the top of the lid next to the eye?

Billijo49504
11-26-2005, 11:57 PM
Thanks all for the tips, even the wife learned a few things, and she usually looks fantastic, at least as far as I'm concerned. I wish everyone could be as lucky as I am..BJ

Robyn2006
11-27-2005, 12:42 AM
Do you mean just under the lower lashes, or actually on the top of the lid next to the eye?

Next to your eye. Am I wrong here? How else could one achieve the look of these attached pictures??? I hardly have anyone guiding me here, but I'm able to get this look with the inner eye stroke... Works and looks great!

Robyn

DanaJ
11-27-2005, 12:43 AM
Yes, but trust me, they are using a pencil, not liquid ;)

Diann
11-27-2005, 01:15 AM
We should find a way to list all these great tips or index them so that we can compile them in one place to refer back to these gems. Any Ideas?

Diann

DanaJ
11-27-2005, 01:19 AM
Yeah, check the Beauty Club :D

Tamara Croft
11-27-2005, 01:49 PM
Next to your eye. Am I wrong here? How else could one achieve the look of these attached pictures??? I hardly have anyone guiding me here, but I'm able to get this look with the inner eye stroke... Works and looks great!

RobynAh.... well that look is achievable, but the eyeliner is actually done inbetween the lower lashes and underneath.. it's quite decieving... I'll show you, this picture below is me ;)

http://www.tamaracroft.co.uk/Private/tamara.jpg